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Contributors Paul A. Cimbala is Professor of History at Fordham University, in the Bronx, New York. He is the author of Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870, which received the Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award of the Georgia Historical Society; and The Freedmen’s Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War. He has also co-edited several essay collections dealing with the Civil War era, including The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction asAmerica’s Continuing CivilWar. He most recently published Soldiers North and South: The Everyday Experiences of the Men Who Fought America’s Civil War. Walter S. Dunn Jr. received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1971. In a forty-year career in museums and historical societies, including the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society and the Iowa Science Center, he wrote a number of studies of the frontier of British North America around the time of the American Revolution. He also published many works on World War II, focusing especially on the Wehrmacht and Red Army. On that subject, his titles include Hitler’s Nemesis: The Red Army, 1930–1945, The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930–1945, Stalin’s Keys to Victory: The Rebirth of the Red Army, Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944, Kursk: Hitler’s Gamble, 1943, Second Front Now, 1943: An Opportunity Delayed, and Heroes or Traitors: The German Replacement Army, the July Plot, and Adolf Hitler. His health deteriorated before revisions of his chapter in this work could be completed . Col. David M. Glantz is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College, Defense Language Institute, 350 | Contributors Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies,and War College. He served for over 30 years in the U.S. Army before retiring in 1993. At Fort Leavenworth in 1986, he helped found and later directed the U.S. Army’s Soviet (later Foreign) Military Studies Office (FMSO), where he remained until his retirement in 1993. While at FMSO, he established the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, a scholarly journal for which he still serves as chief editor. A member of the Russian Federation’s Academy of Natural Sciences, he has written or coauthored more than twenty commercially published books, over sixty self-published studies and atlases, and over one hundred articles dealing with the history of the Red (Soviet) Army, Soviet military strategy, operational art, and tactics, Soviet airborne operations, intelligence, and deception, and other topics related to World War II. In recognition of his work, he has received several awards, including the Society of Military History’s prestigious Samuel Eliot Morrison Prize for his contributions to the study of military history. André José Lambelet teaches history and the humanities at Quest University Canada, in Squamish, British Columbia. He is particularly interested in questions of cultural, ethnic, national, and political identity: how identities are created, how people come to identify themselves as part of a group, and how people choose between or reconcile competing identities. The chapter in this volume is based on his broader research on citizenship, republicanism, and conscription in modern France. Valdis O. Lumans earned his undergraduate degree in history at the University of Florida and Ph.D. in history at the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill. He at present serves as Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at the University of South Carolina– Aiken, where he holds the Leora Toole Murray Chair in History. He is also a USC Carolina Trustee Professor. He has published two majorbooks,Himmler’sAuxiliaries:TheVolksdeutscheMittelstelle and the German Minorities of Europe, 1933–1945, and Latvia in World War II. He is currently working on a third, The Baltic Guard: Baltic Paramilitary Auxiliaries in the U.S. Army in Post-WWII Germany. He has also served as an expert witness in six federal SS denaturalization and extradition cases. Sanders Marble received his AB from the College of William & Mary and his MA and PhD from King’s College of the University [54.152.77.92] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:43 GMT) Contributors | 351 of London. He worked for eHistory.com, the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, and has had two stints at the U.S. Army’s Office of Medical History, sandwiched around a period as historian at...